“Said it was that you were made out of
a rib,
But more likely it was from the soul!
Else how would it be that the entire
creation,
Only by You were truly made whole!!”
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Along with each Woman’s Day comes the
sometimes cynical, at times snide and often a light-hearted query – why only a
Woman’s Day when there’s none for the men folk?
Now there could be plenty ways to answer it
but often its best left alone, but then again I wondered myself why?
Going back into time to the second chapter
of Genesis, where the Bible describes the creation of a woman and there I see
this verse
The
man said, “This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she
shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
Sure, it’s pretty straightforward and may be
most of us hardly see anything wrong. But the lines preceding this one say that
it was God Himself who identified the need for a man to have a companion, a
helper and therefore made someone to fit this role.
While God made this person with a role in
mind and yet the man named her out of the process she came from – he said she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was
taken out of man.
Indeed, God placed the onus of naming all
creatures on Adam’s shoulders and he did carry that out, and while I wonder
what rationale he used to name all others… clearly in case of his companion I trust
he could have been a little more fair.
And thus we men carry on the thinking of our
greatest grand dad’s and take women to be inferior specie because we take it
that she was derived out of a man, she was not the first to be created and etc
etc etc.
In reality though, nothing could be further
from the truth! The lady was meant to be the final piece of the zig-saw called
Creation! It was the pinnacle of God’s imagination and above all, she had a
definite role in the universe.
To be really fair, man was only the second
last item to have been created, the best as we often say is left for the last
which in the creationist scheme of things happens to be, yes a woman! The story
of creation is incomplete, and so is the case in the life of a man - but for
the existence of a woman.
Take for instance a 100m race, you could run
the first ninety-nine but if you fail to run the last one all else is
immaterial. No, I’m not saying that the first ninety-nine are not important; its
just that when you get to the end, the last one becomes as relevant and
important as all others.
Going back to the zig-saw, while you may
have all the pieces the picture is still incomplete and dare I say – not so
pretty – without the last one.
God in His infinite wisdom identified the
incompleteness and loneliness of a man and God’s best solution was a woman. The
Bible beautifully illustrates that God found no suitable companion for the man
in all of His creation.
And to put that into context, one must
factor in that at the end of each day, God looked at all his creation and Himself
remarked – ‘It is Good!”
Beyond all that was created so beautifully,
a person had to be custom-made to complete God’s creation and man’s life! God Himself had to think better than his own creativity to come up with a woman!
And yet
father Adam chose to think of her solely as someone who came ‘out of him’ …
rather as ‘out for him.’
A woman surely came as a consequence to the
man but did so only to make him whole!
Never mind that she can be comparatively weaker
in physical terms, but everything she is, is geared towards helping her fulfill
the role that was identified before she was created.
And therefore, as we realize her right place
in the universe and the perfection she brings, we celebrate not just the day
but the person that a woman truly is - Only by Her we're made whole!
